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...system, the final outcome depends not only on the win ners but also on the losers of the first-round vote. Though Giscard and Mitterrand captured the greatest number of ballots in the first vote, thus eliminating the eight other candidates for the presidency, two of the los ers, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, still command a formidable electoral following. The final choice of their supporters may tip the scales in next week's runoff...
Clearly, Giscard's chances of prevailing in the runoff are marginal without the un divided support of Chirac's neo-Gaullists, who polled a hefty 18% in the first round...
Though he declared that he would personally vote for the President, Chirac refused to lead his 5.2 million neo-Gaullist supporters into a stampede for Giscard...
...instruct its rank and file. Some party leaders, including former Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, argued vigorously in favor of Giscard, but a surprising number expressed a preference either for Mitterrand or for not voting at all. Resentment ran high about Giscard's attempts to eliminate neo-Gaullists from power during his seven years as President...
...presidential election of 1974 and parliamentary vote of 1978, has been gnawing away at Giscard's centrist support. Behind him, Communist Candidate Georges Marchais, 60, is fighting to improve on the 20.55% his party obtained in 1978. On the right, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 48, leader of the Neo-Gaullists, has made surprising advances among conservatives and suddenly emerged as a still unlikely, but just possible, second-round challenger to Giscard...